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Looking Back at the Scopes Monkey Trial Nearly 100 Years Later
American journalist H. L. Mencken dubbed it the “Monkey Trial.” The facts are these: A high school science teacher, John Scopes, was being tried for violating the Butler Act, a recently passed ...
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The Jazz Age
It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings.The Phantom ... And a young man named John Scopes went on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in defiance ...
Column: 99 years after the Scopes 'monkey trial,' religious fundamentalism still infects our schools
Clarence Darrow, on why he took on the defense of John Scopes at the 'monkey trial' The trial in Dayton, Tenn., that ...
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The Jazz Age
It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings.The Phantom ... And a young man named John Scopes went on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in defiance ...